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NOAA Deputy Administrator Visits NGI

February 6, 2012

Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Environmental Observations and Prediction and Deputy Administrator for NOAA visited the Stennis Space Center on January 25th. The visit was arranged by NOAA's National Data Buoy Center leadership, led by Director Helmut Portmann. The Northern Gulf Institute (NGI) hosted an interagency poster session and brown bag lunch discussion in the new MSU Science and Technology Center. The visit yielded great interest and promise of future support and interaction between NOAA and NGI.

Dr. Robert Moorhead, NGI Director, and Dr. Steve Ashby, NGI Associate Director provided an overview of NGI activities and discussed potential interagency capabilities at the Science and Technology Center. Representative presentations from NGI included an overview by Sharon Hodge (NGI) on the NOAA/NGI Diversity Internship Program and a technical poster presentation by Dr. Monty Graham of University of Southern Mississippi of NGI research entitled, "Using zooplankton community distribution to identify large marine ecosystem sub-units within the Northern Gulf of Mexico."